News of the Town Highlights Oak Park Social Buoyancy
Rev W L Demorest moves to 15 North Park Avenue Misses Frieda and Elsie Hartwick visit the Amerion sisters Mrs A Burkhart of 5437 Superior street recovers from la grippe Mrs Russell Hall at 529 North Central avenue nearly recovers from illness Mrs C W McNabb returns from Ohio business trip Marie Hedekin of Fort Wayne guest of Mrs Thomas Duncan Marion Reese visits Mr Wm Patrick near Lombard Charles Demorest accepts pipe organist post at Maxwood First Congregational Meyers family to remain at 208 South Waller Avenue Mr Charles Allen dies pneumonia remains brought home from Butte Mont Rodney Smith moves wife to her parents in New Hampshire A J Moore sells home. family goes east Rev Frank Warne visits Chicago from Calcutta Announcements wedding of Emma Elizabeth Johnson to Carl Elvin Anderson May 5 at home July 1 at 5328 Ohio Street Music program at Mrs Casparson 5219 Ohio Street May 0th. Mrs Davis to perform at Mrs Richardson 42 Poplar Avenue Phil Sheridan Post G A R to meet May 15 at J T Hayden 409 Forest Avenue N L Bostedo leaves for Iowa City with ill daughter Closing party of N and Cinch Club at L T Woodcock 429 North Kenilworth Avenue Mrs Paul Blatchford returns from Boston Mrs A W Wood and daughter to relocate to La Grange Summer Oak Park residents Mamie Budlong to visit brother Stanley Budlong then return to Rockford 11 D Mrs Dwight Jackson and others entertain at Dr Clara B Hendy Oak Park physician active in Homeopathic Association Sidewalk bicycle violations prompt police attention on North Sixty fourth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Burkhart
Superior Street
Russell Hall
North Central Avenue
C. W. McNabb
Corneliatreet
Ohio
Marie Hedekin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Thomas Duncan
Marion Reese
South Pine Avenue
Wm. Patrick
Lombard
Mandeville
J. S. Date
G. A. Rogers
Little 800
Kalamazoo
Mich
McCalls
Charles H. Demorest
First Congregational Church
Cicero Town Board Approves Town Officer Nominations
Cicero trustees meet at 122 North Park Avenue May 8 1900 with President Jones and eight trustees present. The board approves minutes from April 26 1900 and discusses appointments for town attorney engineer superintendent stenographer draftsman rodman and related matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Town of
Cicero
North Park Avenue
Jones
Attridge
Cole
Dutton
Hafner
Norton
Utley
Waters
William Ritchie
R. A. Carpenter
J. Linden
L. Mongreig
Belle Skillin
B. C. Brandstadt
H. R. Williams
Rodman
Ritchie
Yeas
Ways
Watera
C. J. Linden
Giles Hubbard
Berwyn
Charles M. Porter
Harvard Street
Oak Park Avenue
Maple Avenue
Robbers Intercept Austin Pastor in Street Crime
Last Saturday evening Rev. George A. Campbell pastor of the First Christian Church of Austin was approached by two highwaymen near Randolph Street and Prairie Avenue one displaying a pistol and demanding surrender of a gold watch and chain. The weapon-wielding pair fled with the watch while Campbell notified police. Earlier in Oak Park at about 11:80 pm two robbers attacked Charles Jones of 601 South Euclid Avenue robbing him of valuables.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George A. Campbell
First Christian Church of Austin
Randolph Street
Prairie Avenue
Douglas Park
Campbell
Austin
Oak Park
Charles Jones
South Euclid
Ant
Disappearance of F H Zander Baffles Officials
The Situation as regards F H Zander remains a mystery with no trace of him. A letter dated Philadelphia claims he plans a mountain retreat for weeks. Creditors listed include B W Young and others, totaling up to eight thousand dollars. insomnia linked to grip is suspected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Zander
Philadelphia
B. W. Young
Henry Date
Geo. B. Burns
E. F. Abbott
Dr. Strugway
Flint, Mich
Mason
French Comedy in Oak Park at Nakama Club Event
Nakama club members and friends will see two French plays on May 17 with Mlle Ashleman and advanced pupils. Le Testament De Madame is a one act piece while Les Petits Oiseaux is a fifty two scene comedie francaise. Mrs Belle Watson Merville will provide an English interpretation to aid understanding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nakama Club
Mlle
Ashleman
Madame
Comedie Francaise
Les Petits Oiseaux
Belle Watson Merville
Asherman
East
Harry W. Austin
F. N. Pringle
Herbert Pringle
Ralph E. Smith
Eugene Heller
Meredith
H. MacKusick
May L. Liscombe
No Bills
Miss Heller
Bessie Ove
Methodist Dedication Planned for Austin Edifice
Sunday May 13 will feature the dedication of a new $52,000 Methodist church building in Austin. Bishop Charles B. Galloway of the Church South will lecture May 12. The program includes multiple services with presiding Rev. C. E. Mandeville and sermons by Bishop Galloway and Gov. L. J. Shaw of Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Chas. B. Galloway
Church South
Social notes from River Forest spring gathering season
Dr and Mrs Hitchcock return from New York meetings of the Congress of Religions. Mrs Ames and daughter come back from California. May 11 hosts Right to Ten Cinch Club at 420 North Grove. Mrs MacFadden leaves for Geneva Indiana with her mother Mrs Kimball. Frank Bristol and E B Wesley guests at Pleasant Home. Rev William Shepard visits Chicago after Methodist conference. Mrs Pearce hosts euchre party for Howard Benn with prizes won by Miss Strum, Mr Bingey, and Miss Condon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hitchcock
New York
Congress of Religions
C. J. Ames
California
B. Lockyer
North Grove Avenue
C. K. MacFadden
Geneva
Ind
D. W. Kimball
Frank M. Bristol
President McKinley
E. B. Wesley
Philadelphia
William Pearce
N. Lombard Avenue
Howard Benn
Miss Strum
Bingey
Miss Condon
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RM. Traill
Harry Cooling
Central Ave
South Boulevard
News OF the Town
W. L. Demorest
Frieda
Elsie Hartwick
Amerion
Rodney Smith
South
Franklin Avenue
New Hampshire
A. J. Moore
Waller Avenue
J. A. Mudd
Frank Warne
Chicago
Calcutta
India
M. FE
Greenwood
H. C. Nelson
Victor Briard
Mrs. Briard
Emma
Elizabeth Johnson
Carl Elvin Anderson
Ohio Street
Ilinois
Jessie E. Davis
Freeman
T. B. Strobridge
Elgin, M
Jesse Smith
Forest Avenue
Dora B. Badgers
Williams Street
St. Joe, Mo
S. S. Niles
Detroit
Phil Sheridan Post
J. T. Hayden
A. L. Bostedo
North Euclid Avenue
Iowa City
L. T. Woodcock
North
Kenilworth Avenue
Paul Blatchford
Boston
Mass
A. W. Wood
Minneapolis
la Grange
Harry Dietrich
Mamie Budlong
Colorado
Stanley Budlong
Rockford
Dwight Jackson
Homer Avenue
Isaac Herr
South Elmwood Avenue
Chenoweth
Scoville Avenue
Clara B. Hendy
Homeopathic Medical Association
Masonic Temple
N. Sixty-fourth Avenue
Edward W. Pratt
Progressive Cinch
F. N. Dewey
BOARD
Jennings & Wittekind
C. A. Perkins
Taylor Avenue
Madison Street
Jackson Street
Fire and Water Committee
P. G. Biggs & Son
Washington Boulevard
E.m.johnson, & Millies
James E. Tristram
Gus Stubner
Chicago Suburban Water and Light Company
Philadelphia Moonlight
S. D. Attridge
W. P. Alley
B. B. Dutton
E. M. Cole
W. W. Waters
Nays
Dut
Night Express
Rev
Slanton
Crmock
N. Park Ave
J. A. & B. McCann
Austin and
Richard Yates
Illinois
C. E. Mandeville
D. D
Abel M. White
Henry Bolton
D. H. Moore
C. KE
H. W. Warren
John Farson
J. Collins
George Campbell
Samuel H. Brooke
L, .U. Shaw
Iowa
C. BE. Mandeville
Epworth League
Clayton Smucker
S. M. Johnson
Zermon
Charles B. Galloway
Mans, Bebanens & Marr
Putnam Clothing House
Clark Street
C. M. Bansirt
Ely Brooks
River Forest
R. H. Pierce
W. C. Gillespie
Judge Humphreyville
Rev. Johnson
Tipton
Presbyterian Parsonage
C. J Williams
Oak Avenue
Madison
Wis
J. E. McKibben
Chase
244 Park Avenue
N. E. Stewart
H. Mertens
Mayville, Wis
Lowrey & Linxper, Painters and Decorators
Lake St
Austin If
Cross Creek Lehigh Coal
Same
Pocahontas
Birdseye Cannel
Hocking Lump
West Virginia
George Warren Furbeck & C Company
Marion Street
Lasalle Street
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